I’m having a guess that Dirty Computer is gonna struggle to hit the Top 500 and obviously the others will be below that as well. Could it be the first time that a year isn’t represented in the top 500 since the 1950’s? Well, it certainly looks like DC will have the lowest spreadsheet point total of...

If Oil of Every Pearl... moves up one more spot will it be the weirdest album ever to make the top ten for its year? The biggest competition it has this decade are Shaking the Habitual and Syro. @Bleu The Sons of Kemet album has been a great end of year find for me as well. Swans The Seer and To Be...

13. Ariana Grande - Sweetener Don't understand this at all. Mainstream American critics/sites/publications (People magazine, US Weekly, even Pitchfork and Rolling Stone to a degree) will always rally around at least one huge mainstream female pop star of the moment, usually the one that puts out th...

I'm also a bit surprised by Courtney Barnett: I was a bit disappointed by that record to be fair, especially compared to her first outing, so seeing it as high as number 8 is quite unexpected. It was a weak year for exceptional albums, there's no splitting hairs on that. No matter how the top ten s...

1. Heroin - Greatest song in rock history in my opinion 2. Venus In Furs 3. Sunday Morning 4. I'm Waiting For My Man 5. Black Angel's Death Song 6. I'll Be Your Mirror 7. There She Goes Again 8. All Tomorrow's Parties 9. Femme Fatale 10. European Son 11. Run Run Run (betting this is last on close to...

I support this punk dominance in the top 10 and desperately hope it's reflected in the EOY lists. Brutalism was one of the most underappreciated albums of last year, I sure hope people wake up to IDLES with the outstanding Joy as an Act of Resistance. Punk is about the only thing that’s been better...

1999 is Prince's best album of the decade. ;) If anything the list could use MORE Prince. Controversy , Parade , and Lovesexy all belong. We'll agree to disagree there. While I've never seen a greater live performer in my lifetime, always been a touch underwhelmed by Prince on album. Wildly creativ...

Wow, this list illustrates just have far P4's tastes have drifted from mine (in what seems like just two or three years). So many of the albums that are missing on this list (Underwater Moonlight, Stands for Decibels, The Mekons Rock 'n' Roll, etc) were albums they turned me on to with their origin...

[b]Django Django - Marble Skie 8,5/10 For me, one of the 2 or 3 best bands on the decade. this album, like the two previous ar full of hits. Very energic and "feelgood" the first to the last second[/b]. I like Django Django a lot on record for exactly the reasons you describe, but when yo...

It will be interesting to see. A few artists to think about. 1. This decade's Swans - though their Seer Triology, especially the first two, have received boatloads of critical praise, I do wonder if their will be a Velvet Underground and Nico like continued elevation in stature for the triology - wh...

Hey, now you know how I felt a year ago when "Formation" was on all the EOY lists (although I will say that song's grown on me a little). I wasn't actually too big on "Formation" either. Looking back one year later, I was definitely too harsh on that song. It's an okay piece of ...

I will never, ever, ever understand the appeal of "Bodak Yellow". Ever. Hey, now you know how I felt a year ago when "Formation" was on all the EOY lists (although I will say that song's grown on me a little). I wasn't actually too big on "Formation" either. Looking ba...

Not a single mention of Jesca Hoop's Memories Are Now anywhere. That one would easily rank top 10 for me. It got very good reviews, but I never expected it to be the type of album that would do well on End of Year lists. Still, not a single placement yet? Also interesting to see how the early good ...

Vince Staples got snubbed again No Tyler, The Creator too. Not one US publication has chimed in yet - as soon as they do your hip-hop favs will quickly ascend to near the top of the concensus lists. To be honest - I actually like the UK takes, they respect hip hop, but they at least make hip hop ar...

LCD Soundsystem off to a strong start with #1 in both Mojo and Uncut Look for Kendrick to blast to top of the list as soon as US rags and websites start chiming in... as I said today on Coachella message board, okay with either finishing number 1, like both albums, but only because it was a year wi...

Lady Soul is superior to I Never Loved a Man. Am I the only one? I see them pretty evenly, I Never Loved A Man has more iconic tunes, but Lady Soul is way funkier overall. If if you gravitate towards her in uptempo soul belter mode, makes perfect sense to prefer Lady Soul over Never Loved A Man, wh...

Well, well, they finally got to it. The foreign entries are the usual suspects, I guess, but didn't expect to see Françoise Hardy in the top 100. Some oddball albums are lower than I would have guess : Black Monk Time, Trout Mask Replica, A Rainbow in Curved Air, The United States of America... all...

Here's the albums from Acclaimed Music's current Top 100 of the 1960s that didn't make Pitchfork's cut: 24. The Band - Music from Big Pink 29. The Who - Tommy 38. Cream - Disraeli Gears 49. The Who - The Who Sing My Generation 50. Frank Zappa - Hot Rats 54. Mothers of Invention - We're Only In It F...

Fascinating list in some regards - though their determination to try to define rock & roll as never having a blues element to it, when so much of what drove the sixties music scene was anchored in the blues, is almost reprehensible. Blatant rewriting of history to fit the sites own tastes. Not g...

For my money, only truly elite level songs I heard all year were Jesus Alone , I Need You and Distant Sky off Skeleton Tree , Four of the opening six tracks from Car Seat Headrest's Teens Of Denial , Lazarus , Cold Little Heart and Love and Hate from Michael Kiwanuka, Cranes In The Sky , Lucinda Wi...

How you know you are too old? Take a list of best song of the year and look who you know in : Song never heard Never heard the name of the artist before [1] Beyoncé | Formation [2] Kanye West | Ultralight Beam [3] Mitski | Your Best American Girl [4] Solange | Cranes in the Sky [5] Rihanna feat. Dr...

Wow, was this year hip-hop/neo-soul/pop R&B dominated! Not that Pitchfork doesn't always skew towards Hip-Hop/Pop R&B on their best songs lists...but this year, Wow! Few inclusions I love - Sturgil Simpson - Sailor's Guide is one of the most unusual country albums I've heard in ages, not a m...

I'm not hugely fond of "The Life of Pablo" either. I'm an album person, and the lack of cohesiveness of Kanye's last album is a real issue with me. It's easily his weakest album this far. Pitchfork's marks for this album and Radiohead's are embarrassing to my eyes; they look like Rolling ...

I don't think you are being a stick in the mud at all, think you're pretty much spot on in your analysis of all these recent works. I've been putting together a comprehensive best of the year mix collection for friends since 2004 and I can say with absolute conviction that to date imho this has been...

Wow - nice list of albums but some horrendous omissions that are better than at least half of the albums that did make the top 144 Buffalo Springfield Again Moby Grape Safe As Milk - Captain Beefheart The Stooges Traffic (second self-titled) Born Under A Bad Sign - Albert King Gris Gris - Dr. John A...

Loving the new Algiers album too. It's comfortably snug in on my top ten for the year. Here's hoping that they'll improve on that with a top five with their next album. Without doubt, there's a lot of records out there this year with stronger songwriting, but the sound of this album is the freshest...

Utterly baffled that Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress only has one mention in the spreadsheet so far, thought it would be top 20 or 30 of the year... I'm not. The impression I get from many fans is that while it's by no means a bad record, it's their least liked record from GY!BE yet. Agree with M...

Song lists are naturally so much more variable than consensus album lists - which I feel generally come close to getting everything ranked in the general ball park relative to the other works released this year...but gotta say not hearing the year in singles anything like the consensus song list so ...

List needed more Bruce and R.E.M., but there are alot of things I've never heard before. Alot of the R&B, but I'm guessing I'll know more by sound than by artist if I could ever listen to the list in full. I wish this was in a spotify playlist instead of apple music. Yes, but they're probably t...

I'm amazed at the number of tracks I thought were sure top 100 contenders that are going largely unnoticed this year...critics seemed to have really circled the wagons around a chosen few this year, more so than normal... Sorry, this is a long list of songs but is any one else baffled why some of th...

The biggest surprise for me so far is the almost-complete lack of mentions for tUnE-yArDs' Nikki Nack . Considering how beloved the last album was (#1 on Pazz & Jop for 2011, among other things), and how well received this one was upon release, I would certainly have expected it to show up on m...

2. Eleanor Rigby 14. Tomorrow Never Knows 9. And Your Bird Can Sing 5. Here, There, And Everywhere 1. Taxman 7. She Said, She Said 10. For No One 13. Got To Get You Into My Life 06. Yellow Submarine 11. Dr. Robert 4. Love to You 8. Good Day Sunshine 3. I'm Only Sleeping 12. I Want To Tell You Breaki...

To each his own, Newsom's is one of the few records that got better as they aged from this list. I would never expect it inside the top 20, since it seemed american critics were giving her the cold shoulder back in 2010. Time is showing its power, though; four years in and this record is still yeld...

I only noticed "The Next Day"'s omission as the biggest one for me in my first look-through, but I missed Janelle Monáe's absence. That's unfair, her two albums were fantastic listens for me. Middle-aged suburbanites across America love Janelle, hence, she can no longer be given serious c...

Surprised - I never care much for Pitchfork's EOY song lists, but I usually am in some form of agreement their with album assessments - but can't make heads or tails out of this list other than it's been a very weak decade so far, and pitchfork continues to get twee-er and more AM pop/anti-classic r...

I actually feel that way about this decade in general. Dark Fantasy, Channel Orange, and The Seer are the only albums I've heard this decade that really rocked me to my core. Add Let England Shake to that list an we're in complete agreement...nothing release this year would be my number one album i...

Most of my favorite acts, The Beatles, David Bowie, Radiohead, Wilco, are ones constantly changed their sound and challenged the listener. I feel like Arcade Fire has gotten way too much credit for spinning their wheels. Neon Bible was a shameless retread of Funeral, but with more bombast and less ...

Funny enough, I also am very fond of the written word. I'm a very avid reader and an aspiring writer. So my friends are always surprised that I listen to so much instrumental music or pay more attention to music than to words. It's strange. My favorite genres have always been metal and classical, e...

It's kind of ironic. Last time The National lost to Arcade Fire when I thought High Violet was clearly a better album than The Suburbs . This year, the National put out what's (in my opinion) their weakest album since 2004, and The Arcade Fire put out their strongest since 2004...and The National i...

I don't think I was ever expecting Kanye to be number 1 this year. Agreed, I felt, in U2 parlance, this was Kanye's POP moment, the moment he noticeably started chasing trends (ie...Death Grips Industrial Rap), rather than establishing them...still has some great moments, and he's too gifted a prod...

I'm expecting Nepenthe that Julianna Barwick to have the same fate that Anais Mitchell's Hadestown had a few years ago. Showers of praise forms critics but lacking appearance in EOY lists due to it's obscurity and niche market. I'm not sure about this - remember, most of the big American indie sour...